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Mr. G. Russell Fessenden, 485 Gramatan Avenue, Mt. 

 Vernon, N. Y. ; Miss Honora M. Hollinghurst, 2736 Creston 

 Avenue, Bronx, New York; Miss Farida A. Wiley, American 

 Museum of Natural History, 77th Street & Central Park West, 

 New York City, were unanimously elected to membership in the 

 club. 



The resignations of Mrs. Allen M. Burnham, lvlrs. Cecelia 

 M. Grossman, Miss Bertha Healy, Mr. Joseph Crawford, and 

 Mrs. Marjorie Cotton Wingler were accepted with regret. 



Dr. R. P. Wodehouse of the Arlington Chemical Company 

 gave an interesting talk on "Fossil Pollens of the Tertiary Eo- 

 cene." This talk was illustrated by lantern slides. 



Meeting adjourned at 9:45 for refreshments. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 Form an T. McLean 

 Secretary 



Meeting of February 15, 1933 



The meeting was called to order at The New York Botanical 

 Garden at 3:30 p.m. by the Vice-President, Dr. H. A. Gleason. 



The resignations of Frederick W. Kobbe, Samuel Hirsch- 

 berg, Dr. George B. Cummins and C. Victor Jordan were ac- 

 cepted with regret. 



In the absence of Dr. John S. Karling of Columbia Univer- 

 sity and Dr. Arthur Hollick of The New York Botanical Garden, 

 who were scheduled to talk, the following people gave an ac- 

 count of the work they are doing. 



Dr. M. A. Howe spoke on the Sierra Blanca Limestone and 

 showed some interesting specimens. 



Dr. B. O. Dodge discussed his recent experimental work on 

 controlled fertilization in the bakery mold, Neurospora. He re- 

 ported that the small bodies which had been commonly called 

 sclerotia have been proved to be incipient perithecia which 

 could be stimulated to develop to maturity and form asci pro- 

 vided they were fertilized by the application of either micro- 

 conidia or the orange colored monilioid conidia. These large 

 conidia have heretofore been assumed to be merely vegetative 

 spores. It has been proved, however, that they also function 

 sexually to bring about fertilization. He showed cultures of 





